The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid […]

If you’ve ever wondered why technologies popular with first adopters, like podcasting or Twitter, are adopted more slowly by general users, you don’t have to look much further than the latest research from Parks Associates. They found that roughly one-fifth of all U.S. heads-of-household have never used e-mail. Their annual phone survey of U.S. households […]

Digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to the research firm In-Stat. Digital music downloads represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006. Factors contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband, continued demand for single-track downloads, and expanding […]

According to report at StorageProPortal, a team of Scottish Nanotechnology scientists claim that they can cram up to 500 Terabyte worth of data onto one square inch – putting 100 millions songs on your iPod. Unfortunately, the Glaswegian team’s research is “in the conceptual stages” – which means that these 500 Terabyte iPods probably won’t […]

Every day, at least one news item makes us pause, and say, “Well, duh” (as in, “yeah, tell me something I didn’t already know.”). Our “duh!” moment of today comes courtesy of a study on social networking by new media market research firm Grunwald Associates. Their scholarly finding: kids aged 9 – 17 are paying […]

U.S. Internet users watched Internet video a record times in December, according to the latest figures from comScore. comScore speculates that some of the increase in viewing of Internet video can be attributed to stale television content as a result of the Writer’s strike. Research Highlights: U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos […]

A new report refutes claims that portable music players, such as Apple’s iPod, interfere with cardiac pacemakers. Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and […]

According to the analysts at Compete, the Podshow podcasting network is one of the top five movers and shakers of 2007. Here’s what PodShow’s Adam Curry has to say about the news: This is a report I‚Äôm extremely proud to post about. According to Compete.com PodShow grew 29144% in 2007, making us the third fastest […]

Daily traffic to video-sharing sites such as YouTube has doubled in the last year and the number of women visiting has doubled, too. According to the latest research by Pew Internet: 48% of internet users said they had ever visited a video-sharing site such as YouTube. A year ago, in December 2006, 33% of internet […]

Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]